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R. Kelly's mounting legal troubles are only growing worst ahead of his highly anticipated trial.

Robert Kelly, better known every bit R. Kelly, has been hold up in an Illinois federal jail for the last few months equally he awaits his trial for numerous charges that include child sexual exploitation, child pornography production, kidnapping, forced labor, and obstacle of justice. Allegations of misdemeanors with minors have followed the musician for years, simply prosecutors filed indictments towards him in 2019.

Just terminal month, R. Kelly was striking with 10 new counts of sexual abuse with girls anile 13 to sixteen in Chicago, and on Fri, things intensified for the "I Believe I Can Fly" vocaliser in New York. New charges were laid against him in Brooklyn federal court that accuses R. Kelly of raping an underage girl in 2015, videotaping their encounter and giving her herpes, as well as passing the STI on to another adult female in 2017, CNN reported. Kelly informed neither woman that he was infected with the disease.

In addition, Kelly was indicted for coercion and enticement, coercion of a minor, and transportation of a small-scale across land lines after prosecutors found evidence of plane tickets with the girl's name. Kelly'south problems don't stop there. Prosecutors in Chicago have also added a charge of racketeering later on the 53-year-one-time allegedly supervised an operation that trafficked women and underage girls who attended his shows. Similar accusations formed the basis of the documentary "Surviving R. Kelly," which exploited a sexual practice cult in the artist'south home.

Hopefully Kelly is comfortable in Chicago's Metropolitan Correctional Eye every bit he is looking at a possible 70 years behind bars. With charges filed in both Chicago and New York, he is expected to stand up trial in both cities, with the first scheduled for next calendar month and his East Declension trial ready for July.